Humane Society, municipalities still battle over contracts

6:19 PM,
Jan. 16, 2014

Darla Norton brushes one of the cats at the Humane Society of Marathon County in 2013.

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No one is responsible for stray cats almost anywhere in Marathon County while municipalities and the local Humane Society spar over contracts.

The Humane Society of Marathon County offered towns, villages and cities contracts to care for stray cats and other non-dog animals - a service that county government has stopped funding this year. But only one municipality in the county had signed a contract by the Jan. 1 deadline. The town of Franzen, in the southeast corner of the county, will pay $1,200 for stray cats to be held at the Humane Society's Wausau shelter this year. Two cats were housed at ...